Inspirational Quotes by Berthold Auerbach (German Novelist)

Berthold Auerbach (1812–82,) originally Moses Baruch Auerbacher, was a German-Jewish novelist noted chiefly for his village life tales. He was the founder of the German “tendency novel,” in which fiction is used to influence public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.

Born in Nordstetten, near Horb, Württemberg, Auerbach studied at the universities of Tübingen, Munich, and Heidelberg, and in 1836 was imprisoned as a member of the students’ Burschenschaft, a nationalist youth movement.

Destined for the Synagogue, Auerbach abandoned theology for law, then law for history and philosophy, especially that of Baruch Spinoza, on whose life he based the novel Spinoza (1837) and whose works he translated (1841.) However, his fame chiefly rests on Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (1843, ‘Black Forest Village Tales.’)

Of Auerbach’s longer works, the best known are Barfüssele (1856; Little Barefoot,) Edelweiss (1861,) and Auf der Höhe (1865, ‘On the Summit.’) These sentimental works, which describe rural life, found a broad public audience and many imitators.

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